The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-05-12
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation,
Items Taken From the Latest Tsls-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest:

In Russia the tariff on imported ire,
and steel has been raised.
Last Thursday, one hundred house:
were burned in the town of Epieris, Hun
gary.
The grand jury Of Christian county
Mo-, has been discharged after finding
$50 indictments against the Baid-Knob-
bers.
Grand Master Workman PoFderly ad
dressed 5000 people at Denver on Mon
day upon the "Aims and Objects Of the
Knights of Labor"
A fire at Holland, on the Canadian Pa
cifc and Southwestern railroads, on Sat
urday night, destroyed $4,000 worth ol
property; insurance, $45,50o.
News come from Mexico and Arizona
of earthquakes at various points, and the
report of the volcano in the MILESTONE
mountains has been confirmed.
A young widow named Perrin, working
in LorGlard's tobacco factory in Jersey
| City, was crushed to death in the machin-
cry just after work had been stopped for
the day, last week.
Commissioner Sparks of the general land
office, has recommended for rejection
several large private land claims in New
Mexico, aggregating an area Of nearly
175,00O acres.
! From Lincoln, Neb, comes the news
that the Irish National League of Amer
ica claim to have identified Richard Pig
oft formerly proprietor Of the Dublin
Irishman as the writer Of the alleged Par
nell letter.
Work under contracts Oh the monitors
Terror and Amphitrite is practically fin
ished, and the navy department is con-
sidering the nature OF the tests that must
be successfully undergone before the ses-
sells are accepted by the government.
Union men struck at the Philadelphia
Brewery in San Francisco last Saturday
and the Brewers F.Ntectiye Association
decided to inaug;lr;te lockout against
all union men and all the union men, mum
bering about 200, were discharged 5atur
day night.
Col. Jones S. Hamilton, general man
ager Of the Gulf and Ship Island railroad
shot and killed Roderick Gambrill, edi
tor of the Sword and Shield at Jackson,
Miss, last; Thursday, in a row over
newspaper article written by the latter.
Hamilton is a'so seriously wounded.
The terrible disaster at the coal mine
in British Columbia seems to increase in
ghastliness as additional news comes in.
One hundred and one white men and
Is Chinese were in the mine at the time
and 35 bodies have been found AL hope
of finding any Of the men alive is given
up.
John J. Corneiison, who assaulted and
cowhided Judge Reid, at Louisville, KY.
causing him to commit suicide, and who
was sentenced to jail for three years was
released last Friday on writ of habeas
corpus by Magistrate Stofer. Lawyers
say this may be contempt of court of ap
peals on the part of Stcfer.
The Syracuse On. W University has
shown an admirable degree Of enterprise
in securing the liabrary on Won Ranke.
the celebrated German historian, who
died last year. The library, consisting
principally Of historical and scientific
works in all languages, comprises $4,000
volumes and $4,000 manuscripts.
In American Valley, Socorro county,
N. NJ, VIM. Slaughter who was member
Of the grand jury last year, was murdered
by two men named Yo11ngblood and Ad-
kins, last week, because they considered
him as being instrumental in procuring
stealing. They found him unarmed 80
miles from his ranch ard shot him full Of
holes.
The earthquake in Arizona must be
still quaking since it is to be investigated
by the Geological Survey Bureau, which
will send out minute inquiries as to the
the time, ETC., of the shock. The last
time this was done, on the occasion of
the earthquakes in New York and vicin-
ity, the answers to similar questions fur
nished items to the comic papers for
weeks afterward.
An awful amount of excitement and
gossip exists in the City of Mexico over a
social muddle in which the Spanish min
lister and other bluebloods are concerned,
and from which a duel is expected. It
seems that at an aristocratic ball Senor